Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-07-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
CLEvELAND,S TWO CHEAT
MISTAKES HAUNT za1T
STILL.
All the Old Soldiers Being
Knocked Out How Frauds
ia the Patent office are
Covered Up.
From our regular correspondent. ]

SO'O anu oOici ny TcdSOil Vi iWO IL
initiating repulses from the Gran,
Army of the Republic, the Presi
dent retreats from the Capitol ant
seeks relief and consolation in tn,
cooling shades and quiet retreats o
his boyhood's home, and basks fol
a time in the smiles of dear rela
tives and old friends. don't blame
Mr.. Cleveland one bit, for he really
must have been under severe
mental strain for the past month,
and he is naturally glad to call a
brief truce to the great cares and
many responsibilities of his lofty
station. But go where he may, the
Presidents two grave mistakes will
worry him by day and haunt him
by night.
Lately the Administration seems
bent on the work of steadily push
ing the comparatively few remain
ing Republicans out of office all
all aloug the line, and the New
York clique, recognizing that their
State is pivotal as well as powerful,
is at the head of the movement. In
addition to Whitney turning over
the New York and Brooklyn Navy
Yards, to the tender mercies of the
Democratic bosses, Secretary Fair
child has given over the spoilsmen,
that mighty political engine, the
New York Custom House, while
Public Printer Benedict is working
the Washington end of the line by
his energy in dismissing
soldiers and The widows of soldiers
in his office, regardless
alike of his own personal promises
while his nomination was hung up
in the Senate, and the frequent pro-
tests of Department Commander
Burke. Up to date he has displaced
about one hundred persons of the
classes named and given their
places to Democratic favorites,
purely for political reasons.
At a meeting of the Veterans
Rights Union, held day or two
'ince, a report was made, that of |
ixty-three people either themselves
irand Army men or supporting the
antilles of Grand Army men, who
we're lately dismissed from the Gov
Printing Office, only five
ave been re-instated, of course it
will be understood that these per-
ons are dependent, and when de-
rived of employment, have no
ther means of support.
This week another small scandal
anne to the surface in the Patent
Il
)ffice. Eugene Kelly, Chief of the
assignment Division. had been
abitually taking advantage of his
osition to borrow sums of money
'om the clerks under him forgetting
, refund the same. Being backed
y Senator Voorhees,. Mr. Kelly
las soundly reprimanded for his
instead of dismissed as
e should have been, and he was
rdered ''to go and sin no more"
ut the most accomplished of DEM
cratic swindlers is Oscar j. Harvey,
no has reduced forgery to a fine
1T by studying it as a science.
tier the exposure of the scheme
which Harvey had stolen about
1900, from the Treasury on boz
is claims for officers horses that
ad died in Military service, and
ter his incarceration in Jail, Har-
sy's desk was broken open, when
lch notes as these were found.
Written with left hand purple ink
I'd index pen" Written with
ght hand gold pen, and dark blue
K. Was ever such consummate
Known. "Good Lord 7
'liver, " from such graceless
ieves.
The net gold in the Treasury in v
eased from s15s, 1888, COS, July a
t, 1886 to 1886, 1875, 1857 Julyl st, d
'S7, Since the lst, inst, the Gold n
posts have decreased S., 60I, l22 c
nile tie circulation of gold certifi- a
ties has increased So, 26S. 77O. :,